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One might call these large formats the grandfathers of the analog photo world. Back to the days when Henry Fox Talbot and Louie Jacques-Mandé Daguerre were fighting for the claim of developing a fixed image we today call a photograph, there was always a struggle for quality. Through time the idea of fixing an image permanently and being able to reproduce it was captivating. The advent of the view camera (aka 4×5, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14 camera etc.) made taking large format photos easy for consumers and professionals alike. So why all the fuss with large format photography? Quality my friends…quality. So good, in fact, that a 4×5 negative can still, to this day, easily beat almost all professional DSLR cameras. A 4×5 negative, or positive has the ability to produce an image that would fall into the range of 100-200 mp. This would provide astonishing results if used as a source for large format scanning.  This being said, you can only imagine the quality of the image and the control of focus you would have when shooting.  Trust me when I say there’s no doubt about it, an in-focus large format negative or positive can even show you dirt in pores of a face! The details will captivate you. Whether you shoot large format film or stumbled upon negatives from the past, adding these images to your archive can be a source of inspiration as well as historical and sentimental value.   Any time is a good time to dig up those old negatives or dust off that camera and become inspired. “Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand”  Margaret Bourke-White

*A few Large format photographers for inspirational consumption – Margaret Bourke-White – Dian Arbus  https://diane-arbus-photography.com/ – Sally Mann  https://alecsoth.com/photography/projects/sleeping-by-the-mississippi/ – Paul Shambroom  https://www.paulshambroom.com/art/projects.html – Camillo Cruz  https://www.camilocruzphoto.com/main.php

Finally getting around to scanning your whole box of photographs can be a daunting task, and not something one thinks about on a regular basis. Usually, the only time we think about digitizing our collection of photos is when we trip over them looking for other things. The box of photos, stuffed in the corner in the closet, doesn’t get much viewing time these days due to the work and potential mess involved.

What if there was an extremely easy way to enjoy all of your photos, without taking up a lot of room? Our San Diego photo scanning services can transform your box of photos into a DVD containing all of your images in a digital format. We can scan your still images at up to 600 DPI, and even provide image enhancement and restoration services to your photos to make them look as good as new. Once your photos have been scanned on our premium flatbed scanners, you even have the option to throw them into a digital slideshow that you can set to music and share with your friends online!

Some of the advantages of DVD Your Memories photo scanning services include:

-All photos transferred to 100 year archival DVDs, or onto your personal hard drive.
-All photos are scanned on premium flat-bed scanners. We never use document scanners which can leave streaks in the final images.
-All scanning is done in house, locally in our San Diego office.
-Your images will all be properly rotated and cropped.
-We can divide your photos up into custom folder and file naming structures.
-Custom on-disc labeling
–Large format photo scanning, photo album scanning and scrapbook scanning also available.

To book an appointment, contact us today!

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Storing, managing, and cataloging a large library of audio can be a daunting task. Need to move? Did one of your decks just eat a tape? Does a church member need a copy of one of the sermons? Can’t find the recording with the sermon you’re looking for? When you’ve got thousands tapes, cassettes or reels, just finding what you need quickly can take hours, and organization, maintenance, and distribution make the task of managing the archives a task that very few would look forward to. If your cataloging system has evolved without updating the old media, you’ll be begging for mercy fairly fast. You can stop begging, because we’ve got a solution that will solve all of these problems, and it will turn your archival misery into archival joy.

We can take your current cabinets full of tapes and remove virtually every limitation and liability their current format presents to you. By converting the vast collection of cassettes, records and reel to reel audio to CD, you open a whole new world of options in the digital world.

Need to save space?
We can take 50 years of sermons, literally thousands of audio cassettes, and after digital conversion, store them in the size of a shoe box.

Need to keep them safe from the effects of aging and disaster?
Once you digitize the audio, you can store an extra copy on a second system, in your safe, at the bank, or using one of the many online back-up providers. In their digital format, the quality is the same, regardless of how many times you play them, how many copies you make, or how long they’ve been sitting idle.

Do you want to sell or share access to your congregation?
Once you digitize your media, it’s easy and inexpensive to distribute the files online. Here’s an example of a church that did just that, after we converted their media: https://questhaven.org/audio.asp

Need your library “keyword” searchable, organized and sortable by date, speaker, and times?
When you’re working with digital files, organization becomes a breeze. Find anything you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes instead of searching through case after case. If you use a digital asset management software, record keeping for these files becomes even easier! Your keywords, information, and description link up to the file location on your computer (or server).

In the past, I’ve covered different types of arts and crafts people have made out of their old media such as VHS, slides and photos. This week, we have another entry of VHS and audio cassette tape art that have been crafted entirely of the contents of the tape. This would be awesome to do once you finished transferring your VHS to DVD or your audio cassettes to CD! Unless of course, you still wanted to hold onto the original recording.

Here are some photos of the better pieces I came across:

The Big Lebowski – Crafted from VHS

Alfred Hitchcock – Crafted from old film

John Lennon – Crafted from Audio Cassette

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Our department of VHS to DVD in San Diego is equipped to take your old video tapes and convert them to a modern DVD or Blu-ray format that you can enjoy in your home. All of our DVDs even come with a compatibility guarantee, so you can be sure that our discs will work in your home player.

Check out the formats that our stores can accept:

• VHS to DVD San Diego
• VHS-C to DVD San Diego
• Betamax to DVD San Diego
• Hi8 to DVD San Diego
• MiniDV to DVD San Diego
• MiniDVD to DVD San Diego
• MicroMV to DVD San Diego

In addition to the popular consumer formats, we’re also equipped to transfer the professional formats such as:

U-matic to DVD
Betacam to DVD

If you’re in the San Diego area, and need some of your old tapes converted to DVD, come on down to our office and we’ll take care of it for you! We can even provide video tape repair and restoration work as well.

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5th Annual Cinco de Mayo Trail Run
The Cinco de Mayo Trail Run was launched by the Valley Elementary Educational Foundation in 2007 to raise money for Valley Elementary School in Poway. Each year the event has grown, and, in 2010, the race became a fundraising opportunity for several schools in the Poway area. It’s still run by Valley’s Foundation, but the Cinco de Mayo Trail Run is no longer just about one school, it’s now about enhancing educational opportunities for thousands of children across the community and it draws more than 1,000 runners throughout San Diego County and Southern California.

Country Montessori School
Country Montessori School is committed to maintaining its leadership in Montessori education. Our mission as educators and parents is to foster independent, confident, academically prepared, and socially responsible citizens, who will be lifelong learners and problem solvers. We will grow and evolve to meet the needs of our children, parents, and community.

Holmes Elementary
in Clairemont Mesa for their auction fundraiser.

Adat Yeshurun Charity Auction
Adat Yeshurun was founded in 1987 by four local families who wanted to establish a center for in-depth Jewish education and spiritual growth. Our rabbi, Rabbi Jeff Wohlgelernter, has been here since the beginning providing thousands of hours of classes every year.

With all of the different types of film and negatives in the word today, it can be a challenge to determine exactly what type of negatives you have. The chart below should help you to identify some of your odd shaped film that you might be prepping for a negative scanningorder.

120/220 Negative	-One of the older film formats. Was introduced in 1901 by Kodak. -Along with its close relative, 220 film, 120 film survives to this day as the only medium format films that are readily available to both professionals and amateur enthusiasts.
110 Negative	-Developed by Kodak in 1972. -Smaller version of the 126 slide format, frame measures 13x17mm
126 Negative	-Developed by Kodak in 1963. -frame typically measures 26.5×26.5mm.
16mm Negative	-One of the older film formats. -Similar to the 16mm film used for home movies.
APS Negative	-Short for Advanced Photo System, and first produced in 1996. -Was released just prior to digital cameras taking over, so their use was limited.
Disc Film	-Easy to spot because negatives are arranged in a unique disc shape. -introduced by Kodak in 1982.